Nick Carraway

Nick Carraway (1893-) was an American bond salesman who worked on Wall Street during the 1920s.

Biography
Nick Carraway was born in Minnesota in 1893 to a family which had settled in the hardware business since 1851; he was the cousin of Daisy Fay. He attended Yale University with Tom Buchanan, and he served in the US Army during World War I before moving to New York to become a bond salesman in Manhattan. He settled at an old groundskeeper's cottage in West Egg, Long Island, next door to several nouveau riche people, including his cousin Daisy Fay, who married Tom Buchanan. In 1922, he met Jay Gatsby at one of his legendary parties, and Gatsby - a fellow World War I veteran - befriended Carraway, whose help he achieved in reigniting his old love affair with Daisy. He returned to the Midwest after Gatsby was murdered by George Wilson, as he became disillusioned with the East. Carraway was confirmed to the Perkins Sanatarium after becoming a "morbid alcoholic".